Hi! Here's another chapter I hope you enjoy. A big thank you to jafr86 for reviewing the last two chapter, reviews really encourage me to keep writing, even when I'm snowed under by school work! As usual the next chapter should be up this time next week unless my internet dies...

Ollie sat on the floor of the 3rd year girl's dormitory, staring out of the window. Her back was resting against the cold stone wall, her legs bent to fit into the small window alcove, her breath misting up the glass on the cold November's evening. She was clutching her pendent in her hand, her fingers tracing over the smooth silver before hitting the rough crystal in the centre. The pendent, her mother's pendent was a source of comfort; she had had it always with her, for as long as she could remember it had been around her neck.

Ollie was no means religious, her father wasn't particularly, they had gone to church occasionally at Christmas but that was it. However at this moment Ollie was hoping there was someone somewhere watching over ever and was keeping her Dad safe. It could be the God she had been told about when she was a baby back in the orphanage run by Nuns, or it could be her ancestors living up in the clouds, or it could even be a big flying invisible purple dragon, or it could be no one. It had been two days since Gabby had sent her the letter and she just hoped her father was going to be alright.

Ollie's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the wooden door being flung open to announce the arrival Phoenix McQueen. Ollie hastily shoved her pendent into the pocket of robes, not having time to clasp it round her neck before standing up to greet her housemate.

'Am I interrupting you?' Phoenix asked, noticing Ollie's hasty movements. 'I just wondered whether you wanted to work on the Ancient Runes project with me?' she asked 'Heather said you would be up here and...' she trailed off looking expectantly at Ollie.

'I was just about to head down to the common room' Ollie replied, trying to push the sad thoughts about her father out of her mind.

'Well do you want to work with me on the project?' Phoenix asked impatiently, leaning against the doorframe blocking Ollie's exit. 'Or am I going to have to work with Austin?' she asked, a small smile appearing on her face.

Ollie began to laugh; she knew that Phoenix would rather partner the giant squid than Austin. Ollie, Phoenix and Austin, a Hufflepuff and Phoenix's 2nd cousin, all sat next to each other at the back of Ancient Runes. Ollie and Phoenix had bonded over the fact that they both found Austin incredibly annoying. 'Fine' she replied, walking towards the door, picking up her bag off her bed as she passed 'I can't leave you to work with Austin.'

'Thanks!' Phoenix replied as they headed down the dormitory stairs 'you had me worried there for a moment', she shuddered, thinking about what it could have been like having to work with Austin.

'You managed to get her out of the dorm!' Heather exclaimed, looking up from the top of her divination homework, as she saw Phoenix coming down the stairs with Ollie. 'She's been moping up there for too long'.

'We're heading to the library, to get this stupid project done, do you want to come?' Phoenix asked looking around the common room, before shaking her head.

'No thanks Phee' Heather replied, Divination doesn't require books, you just make it all up!'

Ollie and Phoenix left the noisy common room, heading through the candlelit corridors to the library.

'How come you didn't ask Maisie or Elenora, whether they wanted to come?' Ollie asked as walked. She liked Phoenix, she was different to Heather. Heather was studious; she liked to read and was quite shy. Phoenix on the other hand was loud, outgoing and put her social life first before homework. Actually Ollie was surprised Phoenix had even remembered the project. She wasn't saying that she was stupid; Phoenix was clever she just did not like to work and put as little effort as possible into her studies.

'Did you see them back there?' Phoenix replied as they walked round a corner towards the stairs. 'Elenora was hovering around Daniel Spencer' she said referring to the handsome 5th year chaser who always seemed to be surrounded by giggling girls 'and Maisie was with her, making complete and utter fools of themselves. Daniel won't even look at them' she informed Ollie 'he has a long term crush on Clara Thompson in Ravenclaw.'

'Remind me what this project is about?' Ollie asked, changing the topic as she struggled to keep up with Phoenix, who was running at great speed down the stairs.

'How have Ancient Runes been important in modern magical history' Phee replied jumping down the stairs.

'What?'

'Nothing about the Druids I guess!'

'Phee, wait up!' Ollie called out, focusing on not falling down the stairs by looking down at her feet. Suddenly she bumped into something quite solid.

'Watch where you are going' said a low growling voice.

Ollie looked up and found herself staring into the face of a big Slytherin.

'What's taking you so long?' Phoenix asked running back up the stairs to see if her friend had fallen through one of the disappearing steps. 'Oh' she said as she reached the flight of stairs Ollie on and saw the scene. 'Come on Ollie' she urged.

'So you're Ollie' the Slytherin remarked looking down at the small black haired girl, wayward curls escaping from a messy plait. 'Ollie what?'

'Potter' Ollie replied proudly, trying not to be scared of the big ugly slytherin.

'Potter! Well Ollie Potter, I'll be taking 30 points from Gryffindor for not looking where you were going and running into a prefect'

'That's not fair! You can't take points' she objected

'Ollie, come one leave it!' Phoenix said, trying to keep the peace and get away from Greengrass and his little band of evil slytherins as quickly as possible.

'Yeah Potter, listen to your little mudblood friend' he said

'What did you just call her?' Ollie asked, enraged that he had insulted her friend.

'A Mudblood, cos that's what she is, got a problem with that?' he asked, drawing his wand to threaten her.

'Please Ollie just leave it, Greengrass calls every muggleborn that' Phoenix said from the bottom of the stairs 'It's nothing new'.

'Just because he says it, doesn't mean that it is right' Ollie stated, drawing her own wand in defence. Greengrass looked shocked; no one had dared to stand up to him before, yet here was this puny 3rd year, wand out ready to challenge him. His cronies, Ernestine Nott and Matheus Montague, backed away slowly, not knowing what to do while Phoenix watched nervously from the bottom of the stairs.

Greengrass fired a hex at Ollie, who quickly cast a shield charm, the spell defecting off it and hitting the banister. Undeterred Greengrass fired another curse at Ollie, who kept her shield charm strong.

'Not going to fight back Potter?' he taunted 'are you scared you'll get hurt, are you a coward like your father?'

'What did you call my father?' she asked, trying to keep her temper under control.

'I called him a coward, because that's what he is' Greengrass replied, lazily aiming another hex at Ollie. 'He hasn't shown his face in years, he's done nothing in years apart from hiding away somewhere' he smirk seeing the younger girl's face which was getting angrier and angrier, her frown deepening at the mention of her missing father. 'You must have realised by now Potter' he continued 'I tell it as it is, the truth is that your father is a bloody coward.' Phoenix, on seeing her friend's furious expression, subconsciously reached into her robes to grab her wand, scared for her friend's safety.

Ollie could not take his taunts any longer. 'My father is not a coward!' she screamed, finally retaliating, firing multiple hexes and curses at the 6th year Slytherin. Greengrass did not know what had hit him. Hastily he fired a couple of spells before casting a shield charm to protect himself against the barrage of spells Ollie was aiming at him His friends Phoenix and all the other students who were now watching this duel, held up on the way back to their common rooms, watched in amazement as this 13 year old girl spun around, completely at home with firing all sorts of spells at this huge 16 year old boy. Actually a couple of the older students found it quite unnerving that this small girl was such an accomplished duellist.

The amount of spells being fired at him finally got too much for Duncan Greengrass. He sent one last hex towards Ollie before he lost his footing and fell down the stone steps, landing in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the stone steps, battered, bruised and highly embarrassed to have been defeated by a girl three years his junior. He hastily got to his feet, ready to unleash a new set of spells, when suddenly a voice of authority arrived on the scene.

'KATARINA OLWEN MOLLY POTTER WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?'

Ollie hastily lowered her wand and hung her head in shame, taking calming breaths.

'And where do you think you are going Mr Greengrass?' Tonks asked, arms folded disapprovingly, hair flashing to an angry red, as he tried to disappear into the huge crowd. '50 points from Gryffindor and Slytherin for such foolish actions' she said before she began to lecture 'How stupid are you both? You could have been seriously hurt. Katarina, come with me' Tonks announced 'everyone else to your common rooms, there's nothing else to see here. Don't look so smug Mr Greengrass' she remarked 'I'll be telling the Headmistress and your head of house about this. You're a prefect and should've known better. Bear in mind that you are very lucky Mr Greengrass' Tonks added 'Ollie was going easy on you, she could've defeated you in a matter of seconds' then she grabbed hold of Ollie's shoulder and began to lead her away, leaving a very mortified slytherin behind her.

'Professor it wasn't Ollie's fault' Phoenix insisted running after them. 'Greengrass called me a mudblood and then insulted her father and ...'

'I'm sure I will find out what happened from Katarina, Miss McQueen' Tonks said, holding up her hand to silence her. 'Why don't you let me deal with Katarina and you go back to the common room since it is nearly curfew and I would hate it if you were caught out of bed by Filtch.' Phoenix shot Ollie a look of sympathy before turning around and slowly walking back to the common room.

'Right then, Katarina follow me'

'Ollie shuddered, dreading what her Aunt Dora-Professor Tonks was going to do with her. The way she was calling her Katarina was horrible, that cold voice. She had never heard her Aunt speak in that tone of voice before, even when Teddy was fighting with his little sister Millie. Ollie trailed behind the metamorphmagus as she led Ollie to the Head of Gryffindor's office and towards professor Lupin. Ollie gulped, trying to gather her Gryffindor courage as her Aunt opened the door. She did not want to think what her godfather was going to say to her, how disapproving and disappointed he was going to be, especially since he was still recovering from the effects of the full moon.

Remus Lupin looked up from his comfy armchair by the fire, the evening prophet in his hands, he had been reading about the mysterious appearance of a muggle woman in the Forest of Dean. He put his paper down as the office door opened and his wife and Ollie entered.

'So what was the cause of the disturbance and why is Ollie not in the common room?' he asked

'Ollie was the cause of the disturbance' Tonks replied grimly, gesturing for Ollie to sit down on the wooden chair she had just conjured while she made herself comfortable in the armchair opposite her husband.

'What?' he replied looking alarmed what on earth could Ollie have done to make Dora so annoyed, he wondered?

'She was duelling Duncan Greengrass on the stairs; Tonks replied.

'Why?' Remus asked, turning to his Goddaughter who was looking away from the two professors and staring intently at the fire, watching smoke fly up the chimney, her violet eyes alight reflecting the flames.

'Ollie, why were you fighting on the stairs?' he asked calmly.

Ollie turned to face him, hands clasped tightly on her lap and she began to tell her side to the story. When she had finished there was a long pause as the two adults digested the information.

'Ollie, while I think you were right to stand up to him, you shouldn't have retaliated like you did' Lupin said finally. 'You both could have got seriously hurt, if you had angered the staircase it could have moved violently and you could have been flung off' Ollie looked at her Godfather sceptically.

'It could've happened Ollie' Tonks added quietly 'rules are there for a reason' she said thinking about the final battle, in which the stairs had been swinging backwards and forwards in the darkness adding to the chaos.

'Your father is not a coward' Lupin added reassuringly 'he's one of the bravest people I know, don't listen to people like Greengrass' he advised 'their just jealous that their families aren't so noble and have tarnished reputations. Ollie's eyes began to tear up at the mention of her mission father.

'Ollie what's the matter?' Tonks asked

Ollie slowly reached into her robes and pulled out the letter and handed it to her Aunt, who read it quickly before passing it to her husband.

'Oh Ollie, you should have told up' she said reaching over to give Ollie a comforting hug 'don't worry everything is going to be alright.'

'Yes, it's going to be ok, Harry always manages to get out of trouble, Gabby will find him in no time' Lupin added.

Ollie gave a small sob into her Aunt's jumper, letting out all the emotion she had bottled up over the last two days out.

'Hey shhh' her aunt said stroking Ollie's hair soothingly. Finally Ollie pulled out of Tonk's arms 'Thanks ' she muttered wiping away the last few tears.

'Now while I understand your reasons, I can't let you go unpunished for breaking school rules' Lupin said firmly.

'Please don't ban me from the quidditch match next Saturday' Ollie begged. 'Samuels would kill me and then resurrect me just to kill me again!'

'You'll get a month's set of detentions, helping Professor Longbottom in the greenhouses' he said making a mental note to tell Neville in the morning.

'Ollie just keep your head down and try not to get in anymore trouble' Tonks advised giving her one last hug. 'If I hear anything back in the Auror office I'll let you know' she added leading Ollie to the door 'now off to bed!'

Harry Potter's emerald green eyes opened slowly, trying to make out shapes in the darkness.

'So sleeping beauty has finally woken up' a voice said in the blackness.

Harry turned his head towards the source of the noise. 'Carrow' he replied, recognising the sound of the death eater. He reached into his pocket to grab his wand, it had gone.

Carrow must have noticed the rustling, 'We've taken your wand Potter' he said gleefully.

Harry tried to stand up to face the death eater, but felt a heavy weight on his left ankle, which prevented him from doing so. 'Where am I?' he asked

'I can't tell you that'

Harry sighed frustrated at his position. 'Ok why am I still alive?' he asked finally, under normal circumstances he should be dead by now.

'The Mistress wants to keep you alive' Carrow replied, placing a plate of bread and a glass of water next to Harry, whose eyes were now becoming accustomed to the darkness.

'What does she want with me?' Harry asked as Carrow walked towards the door on the other side of the room.

Carrow turned around and looked at Harry directly in the eyes, grinning maliciously.

'Potter, what do you know about the exiled druids of Anglesey?'